Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
The meaning that sustains life in all its tragedy and disappointment is to be found in shouldering a noble burden.
Jordan Peterson
You get in life what you tolerate... if you tolerate disrespect, you will be disrespected. If you tolerate people being late and making you wait, people will show up late for you. If you tolerate being underpaid and overworked, that will continue for you. If you tolerate your body being overweight, tired, and perpetually sick, it will be.
Darren Hardy
The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of our responsibilities.
Josiah Stamp
There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.
Germany Kent
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Winston Churchill
A good bone never falls to a good dog.
German proverbs
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max DePree
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn